A written service agreement
Before any work starts: the services, the fee and the likely disbursements, signed by you and by the agent.
Services
What we handle.
From a first skilled visa to a Tribunal review. Everything below is work done by a registered migration agent.
189 · 190 · 491 · 191
Skilled & State Nomination
Points-tested and nominated skilled visas, from the skills assessment and Expression of Interest through to nomination and lodgement.
- Choosing the occupation and assessing authority, and reading the lists in force when the nomination is made.
- Skills assessment applications and the evidence that supports them.
- SkillSelect Expressions of Interest, points claims and the documents each claim has to be proved by.
- State and territory nomination, including the separate rules each jurisdiction applies.
- Subclass 191 permanent residence for 491 and 494 holders, including the required regional-provisional visa-holding period, compliance with applicable visa conditions and the required notices of assessment for relevant income years.
482 · 186 · 494 · 407
Employer Sponsored
Employer-sponsored pathways involve separate employer and visa requirements. Which stages apply depends on the visa and the stream.
- Standard Business Sponsorship applications and sponsorship obligations.
- Nomination applications, including labour market testing, the applicable income threshold and the annual market salary rate.
- Skills in Demand (subclass 482) applications across the relevant streams.
- Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (subclass 494). We set out how all three work in our 482, 186 and 494 questions.
- Training visas (subclass 407) and occupational training arrangements.
820/801 · 309/100 · 300 · 103/143 · 101/102
Partner & Family
Partner, parent, child and other family visas, where the evidence of the relationship or the family link decides the case.
- Onshore partner (820/801) and offshore partner (309/100) applications.
- Prospective marriage (subclass 300).
- Building the four relationship factors – financial, household, social and commitment – into evidence a delegate can follow.
- Sponsor relationship statements, statutory declarations and Form 888 statements from eligible witnesses.
- Parent and child visas, remaining relative and carer applications.
- Family violence provisions where a relationship has ended.
500 · 590 · 485
Student & Graduate
Student and graduate visas, course and provider changes, and the Genuine Student criterion.
- Student visa (subclass 500) applications and the Genuine Student criterion.
- Financial capacity and English language evidence under the current legislative instruments.
- Confirmations of Enrolment, course changes, provider transfers, and visa-condition issues arising from enrolment, course progress, attendance or provider changes.
- Temporary Graduate (subclass 485) applications, including the Post-Higher Education Work and Post-Vocational Education Work streams.
- Student Guardian visas (subclass 590).
600 · condition 8503
Visitor & Temporary
Visitor visas, extensions, and applications to lift a No Further Stay condition where circumstances have genuinely changed.
- Visitor visas (subclass 600) across the Tourist and Sponsored Family streams.
- Further visitor applications and onshore extensions.
- Requests to waive a No Further Stay condition (8503, 8534, 8535, 8540), whether on compelling and compassionate grounds under regulation 2.05(4) or, for 8503 and 8534, on the separate skilled route in regulations 2.05(4AA) and 2.05(5A).
- Advice on visa conditions, work and study limitations, and staying lawful.
Conferral · Descent · Evidence
Citizenship
Citizenship by conferral and by descent, and evidence of citizenship.
- Citizenship by conferral, including the residence requirement and the periods that do and do not count.
- Citizenship by descent for children born overseas.
- Evidence of Australian citizenship.
- Identity and character documentation.
BVA · BVB · BVC · BVE
Bridging & Status Resolution
Staying lawful. Bridging visas, work rights, and what to do when a visa has already ceased.
- Bridging visas A, B, C and E, and working out which bridge a person is actually on and when it ceases.
- Bridging visa B for travel while an application is pending.
- Applications for permission to work, including removal of condition 8101 on compelling need to work grounds.
- Unlawful non-citizens and status resolution.
- The section 48 bar and Schedule 3 criteria, and the limited routes through them.
ART · s.56/s.57 · s.351
Refusals & ART Review
Refusals and cancellations – merits review at the Administrative Review Tribunal, and Ministerial Intervention.
- Merits review at the Administrative Review Tribunal, including the submission and the schedule of evidence.
- Responding to request for further information or invitation to comments under sections 56 and 57 before a decision is made.
- Public Interest Criterion 4020 and other integrity refusals.
- Requests for Ministerial Intervention under section 351 – see our guide to the ten referral criteria.
- If judicial review in the courts becomes the only remaining option, we will tell you so and refer you to a lawyer – court proceedings are legal practice, and a registered migration agent is not a lawyer.
NOICC · s.109 · s.116 · s.501
Visa Cancellation
Notices of intention to consider cancellation, cancellation decisions, and revocation where a visa has already been cancelled.
- Reading the notice or decision and working out which power is being used and what the response period actually is.
- Responses to a notice of intention to consider cancellation, including both limbs: whether the ground exists, and why the visa should not be cancelled even if it does.
- Section 107 notices and cancellation under section 109 where incorrect information or a bogus document is alleged.
- Revocation requests after a mandatory cancellation under section 501(3A).
- The consequences that follow a cancellation, including the section 48 bar, exclusion periods and the position of family members.
- Merits review at the Administrative Review Tribunal where the decision carries a review right.
s.351 · s.501J · s.195A
Ministerial Intervention
After the Tribunal affirms a refusal, a request that the Minister substitute a more favourable decision, prepared against the ten criteria the Minister has set; and requests for a person in immigration detention.
- Working out, before a request is made, whether it can meet one of the ten criteria in the Ministerial Instructions of 17 September 2025. Since then the Department refers a request only if it meets one of them.
- Requests under section 351 after an ART decision, and under section 501J where the decision concerns a protection visa.
- Requests under section 195A for a person in immigration detention under section 189. The Ministerial Instructions do not cover this power.
- The evidence each criterion calls for, set out so the Department can see which criterion the request meets.
- Staying lawful while a request is pending: the Instructions expect a person in the community to hold a visa until the request is finalised.
- Repeat requests, and requests made while an earlier one is still being processed.
How we work
What every engagement includes.
Whatever the visa, these come with it. Each is a duty under the Code of Conduct for registered migration agents.
Code s.42
Code s.46, s.49
The fee, in writing
A fixed fee or an hourly rate stated in the agreement, and an itemised invoice before you are charged.
Code s.49, s.50
Your money kept separate
Money paid for work not yet done goes into a separate clients' account, and you receive a receipt for every payment.
Code s.38
The Consumer Guide
OMARA’s guide to your rights when using a registered migration agent, given to you before we start.
No Worries Migration is an Australian migration practice, not a law firm. Immigration assistance is provided by Arash Barinder Singh (Arsh Dhillon), Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1467301 – preparing and lodging visa applications, advising you about them, and representing you at the Administrative Review Tribunal. We do not provide immigration legal advice and we do not act for anyone in a court. If you need to apply to an Australian court for judicial review of a migration decision, you should contact an immigration lawyer. We can give you general information about how the process works and point you to the relevant court’s own website, but that is general information and it is not legal advice about your circumstances.
Not sure whether you need a migration agent or a lawyer? See migration agent or immigration lawyer on the Gold Coast.
A note on what nobody can promise. Visa applications are determined by the Department of Home Affairs. Where review rights exist, the Administrative Review Tribunal conducts merits review of reviewable decisions. Courts determine judicial review proceedings concerning the lawfulness of administrative decisions, which is legal practice and work we refer to a lawyer. Anyone who tells you they can guarantee a grant, or that they have a special relationship with a decision maker, is telling you something the Code of Conduct expressly prohibits. What we can do is tell you honestly where you stand and prepare the strongest case the facts support.
Not sure which page applies to you?
If your situation involves more than one thing at once – a refusal, the section 48 bar, a bridging visa and a partner application, say – start by telling us what has happened. Working out which pathway is open to you is our job.
Talk to a registered migration agent
Contact us if you need help.
Whether you are at the very start, waiting on a decision, or holding a refusal letter, start with a conversation about where things stand.
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